Liz, [email protected] wrote: > This is likely to result in several insular communities. In particular I > am considering that au mappers would write a tight set of guidelines for > mapping and, as an example, we wouldn't have to worry about "residential > vs unclassified in rural areas" for any other country - we would define > our own strategy and stick to it.
In general, I think that this is a good thing. You know best how to deal with roads in .au; you know what *you* need to map to make the data useful for you - and not some tagging committee from England which tries to accommodate Argentinia as well. If I, as a tourist, should visit Australia, would I prefer a map made by a world-wide consortium who tries to streamline every national idiosyncracy into their scheme, or would I prefer a map made by locals? I think that's one of the great strengths of OSM that we have the local knowledge on our side. I have often said, and do so again, that regional diversity is not necessarily a bad thing and certainly not something that needs to be eradicated for the sake of conformism - it can be dealt with on another layer (for example the "likeness" thing that Steve recently mentioned). If there is a possible problem with my suggestion then that would not regional tagging differences, but various "schools" of tagging evolving and being used in one and the same area. But I think that would sort itself out come time and anyway, we're not even there yet. > If Au does that, and the Argentinians make their own set of preferences, > and other groups do the same, we will have a project with multiple forks. No, just regional diversity. I would somewhat expect the Australian tourist, out of respect, to not apply their home tagging rules when they map in Argentinia, but have a look around and do as the locals do. (As most of us, I am sure, already do today!) Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
